Port of Spain Corporation

The City Engineer’s Department

The City Engineer’s Department is entrusted with a myriad of responsibilities of which the major ones are:

Transport and Cleansing Department,
Damian Street.

The monitoring and control of all building development and construction activities in the City.
The development, improvement and maintenance of:

The physical infrastructures i.e. roadways, sidewalks, bridges and drains

Recreational facilities

Corporation Institutions and other properties, and

Vehicles, plant and equipment belonging to the Corporation.

Provision of scavenging services.
Procurement and disbursement of all materials and supplies for the Port of Spain Corporation.
The administration and management of the Institutions.
Preparation of estimates of work and annual estimates of expenditure.
Recording and keeping accounts of daily expenditure and processing payments.

In 1997, these functions were executed through a staff comprising 83 pensionable officers and 1400 daily rated employees distributed in the following areas:-

Buildings Department

Works Division

Transport and Cleansing Department

Stores Department

Administrative Section

Various Institutions

Under its Development Programme for 1997, the City Engineer’s Department completed a number of significant projects in the City, including:-

The re-surfacing of 84 streets and lanes.
Construction of roadways with kerbs and slipper drains.
Construction of drains.
Construction of ramp and retaining walls at the Maraval River.
Repair work to the roof and refurbishment of the Assembly Hall at City Hall. Street signage for the city’s cemeteries.

The City Engineer’s Department also acquired three new garbage collection units for the year.